Policing the Police

Michael Rowe is Professor of Criminology at the University of Northumbria. He has an international reputation for his research and publications in the field of policing, particularly in relation to police culture, reforms, diversity, the policing of domestic violence, online victimisation and offender desistance.

"This topical book achieves a holistic analysis of the shifting parameters of police accountability in the 21st century; it will be required reading for both students and scholars of policing studies." David Baker, University of Liverpool

• Police Accountability in the 21st Century, New Wine, New Bottles?;Principles and Purposes of Accountability;Governance and Politics of Policing;Complaints and Discipline;Science, Evidence and Police Accountability in the Age of Big Data;Internal Management and Leadership;Transparency and the External Gaze;Police Accountability and the Problem of the Public.